Here are a few points about how the deductions shook out overall:
- Columbus City Schools accounted for more than 10 percent of ECOT’s funding, even though last year the district outperformed ECOT on more state report card measures.
- While $286 million transferred to ECOT came from urban districts, the next highest amount came from districts listed as low-poverty suburban districts.
- Rural and small town school districts lost $198 million to ECOT
- By contrast, the state’s wealthiest, highest performing school districts lost $27.2 million to ECOT
- Schools in generally affluent Butler County lost $19 million to ECOT, which was about the same as Akron’s Summit County. Butler lost more than all but six of Ohio’s 88 counties